Hi, I thought this was so cool that I'd write up a brief howto. Perhaps it can serve the purpose of showing the flexibility of slimserver. Or just reflect the experiences of a happy slim-user.
What this does: Streams from slimserver over WLAN to a Nokia N95. Playback is controlled using the N95 builtin browser and the special 'handheld' skin. The instructions are N95 specific, but I'll comment a bit on that at the end. 1. Download the "Shoutcast engine and Internet radio client (in ZIP file)" from http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/s60internetradio/ClientPage.html and install on the N95. 2. Create a playlist file 'playlist.pls' and place either on phone memory (c:/Shoutcast/playlist.pls) or memory card (e:/Shoutcast/playlist.pls). The contents of playlist.pls should be something like: [playlist] NumberOfEntries=1 File1=http://slimserver-ip:9000/stream.mp3 Title1=Slimserver Length=-1 NumberOfEntries=1 Version=2 3. Open the "Internet Radio" application. It can be found in the 'Programs' folder of the phone. Choose the 'Slimserver' station from the station menu (make sure the program is in internet radio - mode). The phone should query for a data connection to use. Choose the wireless. Otherwise refer to the phone manual for this. NOTE 1: Streaming requires quite a lot of data, so unless you're on some kind of flatrate subscrition do NOT choose GPRS or 3G. NOTE 2: Data transfer starts immediately upon connection to slimserver regardless of whether a track has been started. See note at the end. 4. Press the application-button (the big one to the left of the 4-way chooser), and find and start the builtin browser. Enter the address: http://slimserver-ip:9000/handheld. The point is that you need to start the browser while leaving the internet radio application running in the background. Bookmark it for convenience. 5. Choose the right player. Phone will be listed by ip-address. Use whatever logic you need to infer which one is the nokia. 6. Click a track/album/artist to play. And there you go. Pick up the phone and go for a stroll round your mansion while listening to the best tunes in your library:) Pretty wicked in my opinion. A few comments: - This gives access to everything the slimserver can play. - Instead of the "Internet Radio" application one can probably use any kind of player which can stream mp3 over http. - I would think that suitable players can be found for windows mobile, palm etc. - The "Internet Radio" application is available on various Symbian S60 Nokia phones, see the dl-link. - I would think that suitable players can be found for a wide range of symbian phones. - The player (client) is identified by ip-address on the slimserver. It has its own settings page accessible from the server-web interface. In particular one can set bitrate limiting. Still even at the lowest setting (64kbps) one only gets about two minutes playbacktime/MB. I think that in most cases the prices for data over 3G/GPRS are two high for this to be a viable solution. If you're on flatrate 3G, you're a LUCKY BAS... - One can connect several clients to stream.mp3 and have them operate completely individually as long as they have different ip-addresses. - I think some phones allow for IP over bluetooth. With some bitrate limiting applied I think this could be used if you do not have wireless. - The caching techniques on the stream.mp3 interface are pretty basic, so there will be a few seconds delay before actions performed in the web-interface can be heard. I've attached a few pics showing the setup in its full working glory. Thanks for looking, Bjørn +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: nokia-squeeze1.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3552| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- bhaagensen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bhaagensen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7418 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39363
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